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    Default Brainstorming Med/Lrg Comps for WH/Incursions

    After recently breaking into solo incursions(and setting a new heart-attacks/minute record), I was hoping to kick of a constructive conversation on setups for medium/large scale multiboxers. I'm not interested in heavily debating the validity of the ideas. More just trying to spread some ideas between community members. If you have any ideas, experience with the setups, or sources of information please share.
    Here's my setup and a few that I've been kicking around in EFT:

    Classic Incursion Setup
    Size: 2+ Guardians, 6+ dps
    I use a 2 5/1Guardians, 8 ApocNI, and Fleet Booster all currently with low entry level skills and mid level fittings
    From personal exp, this setup is solid though can be challenging to execute for beginners.
    Picked up some nice base numbers to work with. 2x guardians seems to be just enough rep to survive NCO sites. I'm estimating incoming damage to be around 2500-3000 raw dmg/sec. That's about 8 reps of 384 every 4.5 sec on BS's with 340 sig radius and 72 average resist.

    Remote Rep spider tank
    Size: 2-5 of just about any type of ship with spare high slots
    A very classic multiboxing setup using extra high slots to provide remote reps and possibly cap transfer.
    This seems to be better with smaller groups. At a point the available targets and killing speed starts to hinder this setup. Mixing spider tanking and gun dps can become a pain for larger groups.
    I've seen this used effectively in WH combat sites and null plexing. This is an easy find on youtube.

    Sentry Drone Setup:
    Size: the more the better
    Based around using drone boats and assist command, similar to slowcat pvp setups.
    Seems very easy to use because very little key/mouse broadcasting required.
    Allows for strong spider tanking and does not involve the cluster f of offensive and defensive targeting.
    I haven't seen or used this (as or by multiboxers) yet but I keep seeing people talking about it.

    Local Rep/Bastion Mode
    Size: Any
    Probably one of the newest setups that I can confirm
    I've been talking with some members of The Ditanian fleet incursion armor community about this one. This has been tested successfully on sisi using a duo.
    Requires uber bling fit Marauders. Fits have been posted on Ditanian mailing lists.
    This setup takes away the difficulty of spider tanking. Drawback: bastion mode 1 min cycle time reducing farming speed sometimes and you'll still need to do standard targeting broadcasts one way or another.

    Drone Logi Spider tank
    Size: the more the better
    After seeing a post or two about the uselessness of drones once you've hit a fast blapping speed I started rolling a Drone Logi Idea around in my head.
    Base numbers: small logi drones 14/5sec, med 28/5sec, Large 72/5sec. The math, 72*5/character= 360. 360*9 of 10 characters (can't rep yourself)= 3240/5sec
    Compared that to 8 remote reps *384/rep= 3072/5sec.
    The draw backs being that you would need to mix offensive and defensive targeting. I haven't been able to confirm if fleet boosters effect drone remote reps.
    Viable ships would have large drone bays but with no bonus to drones such as Vindicators, Typhoon Fleet Issue, or Armageddon Navy Issue.
    Though this setup would probably be the biggest pain in the @$$ to run, I expect that it could achieve some of the highest applied dps per character of any large subcap group.

    Defender missiles
    Size: the more the better
    Probably the most obscure idea I've been playing with, uses ships with spare missile high slots such as the Astarte or Tempest to significantly decrease incoming damage. Normally defender missiles are shrugged off because of their ineffectiveness in normal missions when single ships are outnumbered by opposing missile ships. Being that a large portion of the damage that high sig ships receive in incursions is from torpedoes, having large salvos of defender missiles could allow a group to explore different repping options. Yes, this isn't a stand alone setup, but I'm tossing it in for it's possible viability.

    Please feel free to share your ideas. I'm always looking for some creative new setups like speed/sig tanking or sniping/kiting.
    Last edited by Crionic : 12-19-2013 at 11:31 PM

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